- provides a space devoted to the conceptual framework known as Hodges' model. Read about this resource for HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE, INFORMATICS and EDUCATION. The model can facilitate PERSON-CENTREDNESS, CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT, HOLISTIC CARE and REFLECTION. Follow the development of a new website using Drupal as I finalise my research question with part 2 starting in 2016. See our bibliography, archive and please get in touch [@h2cm]. Welcome.

Saturday, February 09, 2013

Yesterday I travelled to London for a nurse related meeting and used the opportunity from 8pm - 11pm to take in the Manet exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. Brilliant! It is a great event. There really is no comparison apart from the very high resolution close examination that our technology makes possible; but then that is a difference experience, a different purpose.

Manet's work at the RA includes paintings that do appear unfinished. Areas of the canvas being unresolved brings home the relationship and dependency of the artist with the subject, and the artist's approach to portraiture. Manet was quite demanding on his subjects apparently and while not completely averse, he did not routinely rely on the new opportunities that photography afforded. Here are some thoughts from the Art Fund website:

'Summer' or 'The Amazon', by Edouard Manet

Manet was a great risk-taker and critics of day rallied against his
inconsistent approach, as you will see many of the works seem
'unresolved' or 'unfinished' but one of Manet's great skills was this
ability to stop painting at the right moment, and it is this technique
which gives the works a sense of movement and life.

Manet once said to his friend Antonin Proust, 'I must be seen whole.
Don't let me go piecemeal into the public collections; I would not be
fairly judged.' This exhibition, which brings together the largest
selection of works by the artist to be exhibited together in a UK
museum, is a great opportunity to judge Manet's extraordinary talent as a
'whole'.

In nursing we are accustomed to impatient patients. Many though have no choice but to 'sit' and 'lie'. They are static, not able to walk or run away.

Unconscious patients - we speak to them: redrawing the outlines. Searching verbally where we cannot go, reaching for the centers of personhood. We sculpt them back to their optimal health. Sometimes the brush strokes are urgent, sometimes we improvise with touch.

All the time an ideal: a portrait of care. No matter how busy we are basic nursing care should never remain unresolved.

That part of the canvas is always completed. The outline is integrated. The horizon, foreground, middle and background may be sketchy in the extreme cases, but the real mission critical bases are covered.

What we should never countenance, collude, or indirectly sanction are the cutting of those bases.

Jones, P. (1998-2009) Hodges' Health Career Care Domains Model,http://www.p-jones.demon.co.ukHughes, E. (1958) Men and their work. New York: Free Press. (Hughes was used by Brian to define ‘health career’ the idea of life chances.)

The two papers below are just prior to the website, but show how I have subsequently stressed the role of information, informatics and the socio-technical within Hodges model as a unifying concept.Jones, P. (1996) Humans, Information, and Science, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 24(3),591-598.Jones, P. (1996) An overarching theory of health communication? Health Informatics Journal,2,1,28-34.

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Presented at 4th Int. Nursing Conf. Jordan

Presented at 16th Int. Philosophy of Nursing Society Conf 2012

The 16th IPONS Conference was held on 10th - 12th September 2012 at the University of Leeds.

Attended: Conceptual Spaces at Work, 24-26 May 2012

Conceptual Spaces at Work: an International Conference on
the theory of Conceptual Spaces and its applications.
24 - 26 May 2012, Department of Philosophy,
Lund University, Sweden.
Organizers: Peter Gärdenfors and Frank Zenker.